At least we agree on something.
Mexico is a pretty f'ed-up country.
One time, I had the privilge to ride on a skiff down there that was excorted by a 16 y.o. boy in an army uniform carrying an automatic rifle. I asked permission to take his photo. He shook his head. I took it anyway when he wasn't looking. The camera was at my knee.
Another time, I was ushered into a customs area at an airport where there was no exit. I had to jump over the turnstyle to make back it to the plane.
You ever watch a Mexican fire department in operation? Let's just say that they aren't quite as efficient as ours are.
Ever driven by a garbage dump in Mexico? Ecologically speaking, they leave something to be desired.
Ever gotten lost driving in Tijuana? You see some things you don't want to look at.
What probably pisses me off the most down there is their churches. I probably shouldn't get into that, however.
Other than those in power, who in their right mind would not want to get out of there?
I also can agree that many illegals (and legals) are good people ---but not all are and around here there seems to be more (of both) living in government housing and cashing in on free health care at the county hospital than there are working in farm work. We wouldn't necessarily have to get rid of all the illegals ---if we actually need some ---I'm not sure but possibly farm workers ---we can make a temporary guest worker program where they're background-checked and limited to certain jobs. We don't need any that are committing Social Security and other document fraud and we don't need the ones on welfare, we don't need the drug runners either or the other criminals. What we see a lot of here are pregnant --often unmarried women from Mexico coming here to have babies that weren't even conceived here but will end up on welfare here and with family reunification are used to bring in all kinds of non working types. The elderly moving in to get on SSI and Medicaid are also a major problem, they also don't come to work hard for anything.